Improvement in pads for horse-collars



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LEMUEL L. HULL,v or osKALoosA, IOWA.`

Letters Patent No. 112,713, dated March 14, 18,71.

iMPROVEMENT lN PADS `FIQR HCRSE-COLL-A-RS.

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' To all whomv it may concern have invented an Improved Pad for Horse-Collars;

and I do hereby declare 'that the following is a full, clear, and e'xact description thereof, reference being had Ato the annexed drawing making part of this speci- .ication, in which- Figurevlv is a perspective lview of my improved colf lar-pad, showing the projecting flanges for/retaining the collar in position and the loops through which the ends of the collar pass.

Figurev 2 is a central sectional elevation.

Figure 3 is another section.

Corresponding letters refer to corresponding in' the several figures.

This invention relates toI pads for the collars worn by horses, it being designed to prevent the chang of the neck of the animal, and also to prevent the hair from heilig worn off; land, to this end,

, 1t consists in providing an India-rubber pad to be used in connection with anyordinary collar that encircles the neck of the animal, as will be more fully explained hereinafter.

A in the drawing refers to a pad, which is tobe made in the arched formv shown in the drawing,'or in such form as will best adapt it to the neck of the animal. 1

Its width is to b'e equal to the width'of the collar, and it is to be provided with flanges B B upon its outer edges, which are to'project therefrom for a distance snicient to enable itV to keep the collar in position withreference thereto, so that it may not work out from under the collar.

It is also to be provided with loops CG near its ends, through which' the upper ends of the collar are to befpassed when being placed upon the neck of the parts animal. These loops may be made of the same material as the balance bf the pad is, l or they may be 'made of leather or any other iexible material; and they may be stitched to the flanges of the pad, or, if made of metal, may be riveted thereto.

It will Abe observed that the pad is thicker in its cross-section at the top.` This form of construction is adopted with a view of giving additional strength to it at that point, as well as additional elasticity, so that, as the weight of the collar rests upon it, it may serve as aspring to some extent, andv thus relieve the neck ofthe animal from sudden jars.

In manufacturing these pads the material is to be prepared as in the manufacture ot' various articles now made of nIndia rubber, and then pressed in molds which will give them the proper shape and -dimens1ons. l

I am aware that harness-pads have been used made of leather lined with India rubber, but l know of no case in which solid molded-rubber has been used for this purpose; and my pad differs from any heretofore known.

Claim.

Having thus described my invention, y

That l claim, and desire toseoure' byLettersPatent, A solid molded India-rubber collar-pad, substantially such as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEMUEL L. HULL.

Witnesses:

J. RHINEHART, Gno. A. WELLS. 

